Here is an interactive list of the films mentioned in the Mitteleuropa book. I have only listed the ones that are commonly available in English. Many of them are available to watch for free online.
Alice (full film)
Jan Švankmajer’s surrealist stop-motion adaptation of Alice in Wonderland
B Movie Lust and Sound in West Berlin
Musician and record producer Mark Reeder’s documentary about West Berlin in the 80s, Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave
Backbeat
Beatles biopic about their time in Hamburg, with Sheryl Lee from Twin Peaks as Astrid Kirchherr
Before Sunrise
90s romance about travellers in Vienna
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Fassbinder’s classic arthouse fashion industry psychodrama
Cabinet of Dr Caligari (full film)
The classic Expressionist horror
Christiane F
Grim times in 70s West Berlin
Closely Watched Trains
Classic Czech New Wave Satire
Cycling the Frame (full film)
Tilda Swinton cycles around the Berlin Wall in 1988
Dark
The cult German time-travel show. Twin Peaks meets Earthfasts. (Available on Netflix)
Down to the Cellar (full film)
Beware of the potatoes
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Werner Herzog’s costume drama about the mysterious Bavarian orphan
Fairytale Castles of Ludwig II- Dan Cruickshank (full film)
Documentary about Ludwig II and his castle-building addiction.
Available to watch on iPlayer in the UK here
Faust (full film)
Murnau’s expressionist version of Faust, fully restored.
Forklift Driver Klaus: First Day on the Job (full film)
He’s really not qualified to do this.
Der Golem (full film)
Restored version of the classic 20s horror film
Goodbye Lenin
The Hand (full film)
Czech animation legend Jiří Trnka’s final work- banned after his death
Kakfa (full series)
TV biopic series about Kafka. Available to watch for free on Channel Four in the UK
Krautrock: the Rebirth of Germany (full film)
BBC documentary about Krautrock
The Little Mole (full film)
The Czech Republic’s finest export. All episodes are available for free on their Youtube channel.
The Lives of Others
The Stasi are watching you
M (full film)
Fritz Lang’s classic serial killer drama
Mephisto
Faust in 30s Germany
Nosferatu
The original and the best
Photographer of Mauthausen
Based on the true story of a Catalan photographer who smuggled negatives out of Mauthausen concentration camp (available on Netflix)
Prora
LGBT coming of age film set in an abandoned Nazi holiday camp
Sátántangó
Sometimes you need to watch a 7 hour long Hungarian film
Sedmikrásky (full film)
The 60s Czech New Wave classic
The Silence
Before Baran Bo Oder created Dark, he made this cold case thriller
The Street of Crocodiles
Third Man
Orson Welle’s classic thriller set in post-war Vienna
Valerie and her Week of Wonders
Czech New Wave vampire film
The Wall
A mysterious forcefield appears in the Austrian Alps
Wings of Desire
Inspired by Rilke’s poetry, angels visit 80s Berlin.
The Witness
Classic Hungarian surrealist satire
The Zone of Interest
(Included on Amazon Prime)
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